Arthur Mario Acton (1873–1953) was a British architect, art dealer and collector.

Early life

Arthur Acton was the illegitimate son of Eugene Arthur Roger Acton (1836–1895), counsellor to the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.

Personal life

Acton married the wealthy Chicago heiress Hortense Lenore Mitchell (1871–1962), whose father, was William Hamilton Mitchell (1817-1910), her inheritance came through John J. Mitchell (1853–1927), who was president of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank from 1880 to 1923, then president of its successor, the Illinois Merchants Trust Company, from 1923 until his death. They lived at the

Villa La Pietra Villa La Pietra is a renaissance villa in the hills outside Florence, in Tuscany in central Italy. It was formerly the home of Arthur Acton and later of his son Harold Acton, on whose death in 1994 it was bequeathed to New York University. The vi ...

, Florence. Their elder son was the writer, scholar, and aesthete Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (1904–1994). Their younger son, William Hamilton Mitchell Acton (1906–1945), was an artist. Acton also fathered a daughter, Liana Beacci (1917–2000), with his secretary Ersilia Beacci (died 1953). Liana's daughter is Princess Dialta Alliata di Montereale.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Acton, Arthur 1873 births 1953 deaths British architects British art dealers British art collectors